The Northfrisian "Halligen" Langeneß, Nordstrandischmoor, Gröde, Hooge and Oland off the coast of Schleswig-Holstein were 2009 recognized by UNESCO as a "Biosphere reserve Wadden and Halligen" within the National Park Wadden Sea Schleswig-Holstein.
The Halligen are flat islands of saltmarshes, where since centuries people live on hills ("warfts") manmade of clay. Today, the people on the Halligen, which are used to several floodings of their land ("Landunter") every year, live of coastal ...

Barnacle Geese (Branta leucopsis), Fahretofter Koog, GermanyIn the Wadden Sea, on the German coast, but also increasingly in Denmark and Norway appears a new and population of breeding barnacle geese, which derived either from the Novaya Zemlya population or the Stockholm Zoo-po...

By Peter Prokosch

Beach, dunes and saltmarshes, Norderney, Lower Saxony Wadden Sea National Park, GermanyThe 3450km2 large Lower Saxony Wadden Sea national park was founded in 1986. It includes tidal mudflats, tidal creeks, salt marshes, dunes and beaches offshore from Lower Saxony between the Dollart and the estuary mouth ...

By Peter Prokosch

Cloud of Red Knots (Calidris canutus islandica), Langeness, Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea21 young people from 15 European countries participated in a Wadden Sea Climate Training, and got the opportunity to experience first-hand the world’s most important inter-tidal zone on the frontline of climate change. C...

By Peter Prokosch

Distinguishing Atlantic Salmon and Pollack in the National Park Center "Multimar", Tönning, GermanyThe difference between Atlantic Salmon and Pollack was explained in the aquarium of Multimar when 21 young people from 15 European countries participated in a Wadden Sea Climate Training, and got the opportunity to exper...

By Peter Prokosch

Footprints of shorebirds, Japsand, National Park Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea, GermanyOn 26 June 2009, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee inscribed the Dutch-German Wadden Sea on the World Heritage List. The Wadden Sea is an area that holds a natural beauty and is unique in the world. The total area of t...

By Peter Prokosch

Nigehörn after establishment 1981, Hamburg Wadden Sea National Park, GermanyThe Hamburg Wadden Sea National Park (German: Hamburgisches Wattenmeer) is an exclave of the city state of Hamburg in North Germany and lies 12.5 km off Cuxhaven in the estuary of the Elbe in the North Sea (German Bight)...

By Peter Prokosch

Walking on the seabed from Hallig Hooge to Japsand, National Park Schleswig- Holstein Wadden Sea,Seabed meets Horizon. The tidal flats between Den Helder in the Netherlands and Esbjerg in Denmark are the largest continuous tidal flats in the world and one of the last areas in Europe where nature can still develop to...

By Peter Prokosch

Walking on the seabed from Hallig Hooge to Japsand, National Park Schleswig- Holstein Wadden Sea,Seabed meets Horizon. The tidal flats between Den Helder in the Netherlands and Esbjerg in Denmark are the largest continuous tidal flats in the world and one of the last areas in Europe where nature can still develop to...